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Disney's Land

Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501190814
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Disney's Land written by Richard Snow and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company’s finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin. But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney’s Land, “Snow brings a historian’s eye and a child’s delight, not to mention superb writing, to the telling of this fascinating narrative” (Ken Burns) that “will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history” (Publishers Weekly).

Walt Disney's Disneyland

Author : Chris Nichols
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783836595131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney's Disneyland written by Chris Nichols and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Disneyland, Walt Disney's visionary theme park in Anaheim, California. This intriguing visual history includes stunning color photographs, concept drawings, as well as ephemera from the historical collections of the Walt Disney Company, to trace the park's development and immersive world of magic and wonder.

Buying Disney's World

Author : Aaron H. Goldberg
Publisher : Quaker Scribe
ISBN 13 : 1733642056
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Buying Disney's World written by Aaron H. Goldberg and published by Quaker Scribe. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1965, after numerous months of speculation surrounding a mystery industry that had been purchasing large amounts of land in central Florida, Walt Disney finally put an end to the rumors. He announced to the public his grandiose plans for the thousands of acres he had secretly purchased. For the eighteen months prior to the announcement, Walt entrusted a small group of men to covertly make these purchases. Next, they were tasked with drafting a legislative act to submit to the state of Florida that would allow Disney to wield nearly absolute legal control over the property under a quasi-government municipality. Staying true to its storytelling roots, Disney wove a tale of mystery centered around a high-ranking CIA operative, who was rumored to have been, just a few short years before, the paymaster behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. This savvy and well-connected CIA agent became the de facto leader for the group of Disney executives and attorneys who orchestrated and executed a nearly perfect plan to keep Disney’s identity a secret from the public by utilizing aliases, shell corporations, and meandering travel itineraries, all in an effort to protect the company’s identity during the land acquisition process. As told through the personal notes and files from the key figures involved in the project, Buying Disney’s World details the story of how Walt Disney World came to be, like you’ve never heard before. From conception to construction and everything in between—including how a parcel of land within Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort was acquired during a high-stakes poker game—explore how the company most famous for creating Mickey Mouse acquired central Florida’s swamps, orange groves, and cow pastures to build a Disney fiefdom and a Magic Kingdom.

Peter Pan in Disney's Return to Never Land

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717266609
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Peter Pan in Disney's Return to Never Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Tinker Bell continues in this tie-in to the new Walt Disney animated sequel due in theaters in February of 2002.

A Portrait of Walt Disney World

Author : Kevin Kern
Publisher : Disney Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781368052849
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Walt Disney World written by Kevin Kern and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive, must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Walt Disney World Resort, across half a century, through diverse and vibrant voices and mostly unseen Disney theme park concept art and photographs. Walt Disney's vision for the Florida Project begins with Disneyland and the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. After an imaginative and expansive design, a unique land acquisition process, and an innovative construction period, the Walt Disney World Resort celebrated its Grand Opening in October 1971. It featured a theme park dubbed the Magic Kingdom and three recreational resorts: Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Village, and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. As Walt Disney World consistently grew and further evolved through the five decades that followed, certain themes reverberated: an appreciation for nostalgia, a joy for fantasy, a hunger for discovery, and an unending hope for a better tomorrow. Inspirational and memorable theme parks, water parks, sports arenas, recreational water sports, world-class golf courses, vast shopping villages, and a transportation network unlike any other in the world resulted in fun, festive, and familiar characters, traditions, spectacles, merchandise, and so much more. The resort has come to represent the pulse of American leisure and has served as a backdrop for life's milestones both big and small, public and private. Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century serves as a treasure trove for vacationers, students of hospitality, artists, and all Disney collectors. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic Poster Art of the Disney Parks

The Magic of Disneyland and Walt Disney World

Author : Valerie Childs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780831757397
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Disneyland and Walt Disney World written by Valerie Childs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned color photographs depict various sections of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, with a brief discussion of the history of both parks.

Walt Disney's Dumbo on Land, on Sea, in the Air

Author : Jerry Walters
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394825182
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney's Dumbo on Land, on Sea, in the Air written by Jerry Walters and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the train breaks down on the way to their opening performance, Dumbo and the other circus animals must find other means of transportation.

Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423184317
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands written by Ridley Pearson and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.

Disney Lands

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780606375078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Disney Lands written by Ridley Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Wanting to celebrate the defeat of the Overtakers, the five Kingdom Keepers are mystified by their mentor's final puzzle, which reveals a threat by an evil force far greater than any they have yet encountered. A continuation of the Kingdom Keepers series.

Disney Storybook Collection (3rd Edition)

Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Press
ISBN 13 : 9781484713488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Disney Storybook Collection (3rd Edition) written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring your favorite Disney characters, these bestselling storybook collections have been completely redesigned with all new covers, gilded pages, newly edited text, and a classic new look with over 250 illustrations-including full-page artwork from the Disney archives. From Frozen to The Lion King, the best-loved stories of all time are now even better and re-create the movie magic of the most beloved Disney films. Enhanced with new pieces of art from the Disney archives, these stories are still the ideal length for reading aloud.

Walt Disney's Story Land

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780307165473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney's Story Land written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 50 beloved stories, many adapted from Walt Disney films.

Project Future

Author : Chad Denver Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615347776
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Project Future written by Chad Denver Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida is one of the world's most famous vacation destinations. This iconic resort is now located in what once was thousands of acres of swamp and marshland. Through spy-like moves and innovative strategies, Walt Disney and his cadre of creative leaders turned this massive swamp land into today's Disney World. This books shares the amazing behind the scenes story of how Disney's Florida resort, code-named Project Future, rose from the marshes of Central Florida to become one of the world's most popular theme park resorts.

Realityland

Author : David Koenig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964060524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Realityland written by David Koenig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on a decade of research and interviews with 100 Disney insiders"--Jacket flap.

Disney Never Lands

Author : Jim Korkis
Publisher : Theme Park Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683902133
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Disney Never Lands written by Jim Korkis and published by Theme Park Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What If Walt Had... For every project that Disney has produced, there are hundreds more that never happened despite significant investments of time, talent, and money. But what if you could see them anyway... Jim Korkis enters the limbo of Disney Never Lands to report on new theme parks, new lands in existing parks, television shows, and animation that were left unbuilt and unfilmed. Over the decades, he interviewed Imagineers and animators who worked on these projects as well as researching contemporary newspaper accounts and official publicity releases. Korkis details the usual suspects like WestCot, Mineral King, Roger Rabbit feature sequels, and Epcot's Africa pavilion as well as surprises like Jim Henson's television series about Ariel the Little Mermaid and the Disney Channel's series that would have featured Dreamfinder and Figment as well as the animation Disney had Ub Iwerks do for Danny Kaye's first feature film. Korkis shares the surprises that he discovered in the deepest vaults of Disney history. For the first time, these stories are gathered together in one book to inspire Disney fans' imaginations of what might have been and to document in great detail these lost dreams.

Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World

Author : Cher Krause Knight
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065321
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World written by Cher Krause Knight and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating analysis, Cher Krause Knight peels back the actual and contextual layers of Walt Disney's inspiration and vision for Disney World in central Florida, exploring the reasons why the resort has emerged as such a prominent sociocultural force. Knight investigates every detail, from the scale and design of the buildings to the sidewalk infrastructure to which items could and could not be sold in the shops, discussing how each was carefully configured to shape the experience of every visitor. Expertly weaving themes of pilgrimage, paradise, fantasy, and urbanism, she delves into the unexpected nuances and contradictions of this elaborately conceived playland of the imagination.

Summary of Aaron Goldberg's Buying Disney's World

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Aaron Goldberg's Buying Disney's World written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Aaron Goldberg's Buying Disney's World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Buying Disney's World" by Aaron Goldberg chronicles the intricate process of acquiring land and developing Walt Disney World in Florida. The narrative begins with Walt Disney's dissatisfaction with the commercial sprawl around Disneyland and his desire for a larger, more controlled environment for his next project. Walt and Roy Disney, leveraging their Florida family connections, embarked on a covert operation to purchase vast tracts of land in Central Florida...

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives

Author : Bethanee Bemis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000811166
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives written by Bethanee Bemis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years, Disney’s theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney’s success as one of America’s most prolific storytellers, its rise as a symbol of America itself, and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain "American" values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative, Disney’s vision serves to reassure us, affirm our shared values, and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identity—or at least, it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the American identity writ large. This volume also examines the following: • how Disney’s original cartoons and live-action entertainment offerings drew from American folk history and ideals • how their work during World War II cemented them as an American symbol at home and abroad • how the materialization of the American themes already espoused by the brand at their theme parks created a place where collective memory lives • how legitimization by presidents and other national figures gave the theme parks standing no other entertainment space has • how Disney has changed alongside the American people and continues to do so today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of history, media, cultural studies, American studies and tourism.